Zanthoxylum bungeanum

Chapter 23 Little Jiaojiao from the City

Zou Chengmin told his mother not to quarrel with Jiang's family again, so he started the motorcycle and took Li Yan out of the village.

The road to the mountain was bumpy and bumpy, Li Yan could only hold onto his clothes tightly after being almost thrown off once.

Half an hour later, when we arrived at the pepper tree planting slope, the motorcycle could only park in front of the three houses at the foot of the slope.

The house is very simple, with mud walls and a roof covered with oilcloth. The second room is a sleeping room, and the other is a kitchen and utility room.

"Come on, have a sip of tea, I'm sorry, I have wronged you just now." Zou Chengmin went to the kitchen to pour hot water for her, and found a chance to apologize.

Li Yan asked curiously, "It's okay, I know she just cares about you, but I don't understand one thing, it's not a big deal for her to make trouble like this, why did you break up?"

Originally, family ugliness should not be publicized, and Zou Chengmin didn't know what was going on, so he told her about the past few years with Jiang Xiuxiu.

Li Yan stopped talking. Loving the poor and loving the rich is what most people think, and it's normal. Last year when Zhu Jianping proposed marriage, if he couldn't come up with a gift money of [-] yuan, his father would probably not even look at him.

"She has a bad temper, so I won't talk about it. She came to my kind of plantation once, but she refused to come again. She said that the ultraviolet rays were too high and her skin was sunburned. If I hadn't known her since childhood, I would have thought she was from the city. Xiao Jiaojiao, I am also very surprised, how come she forgets that she is a farmer after going out to work for a few years." Zou Chengmin was talking in his heart.

Li Yan touched her face and told the truth, "Is there any girl who doesn't like to look good, I can't get tanned."

Zou Chengmin looked at her whose hair was still messy, and knew that she was kind-hearted, "You sit here for a while, I'll go find a comb for you."

Li Yan's hair is waist-length and has a lot of volume. She usually likes to braid it into braids, but today she was grabbed by Zou Chengmin's girlfriend and pulled down. Her scalp still feels uncomfortable.

He fetched the comb and mirror, and then withdrew. Li Yan combed her hair again, and then followed him up the slope.

Zou Chengmin pointed out to her the year of the pepper tree on the side of the road as he walked.

There is also an uncle in his 50s and a girl about 20 years old weeding on the planting slope. Zou Chengmin introduced them. They are a father and daughter, and they were also introduced by Uncle Liu to learn planting techniques.

The girl's name was Huang Xiaojuan, and the two of them chatted and found out that they were both of the same age, and they immediately became intimate.

During the day, we learned planting techniques together, and at night, Li Yan shared a room with her to rest. Three months passed in the blink of an eye.

Zou Chengmin said that the teaching has basically been done, and the only thing left is the picking techniques when the peppers are ripe in July, so they should go back first and come back in two months.

Before dawn the next morning, Li Yan, Huang Xiaojuan and her father and daughter got up, and the three of them were going to the coach stop ten kilometers away to catch the 09:30 bus to the county seat.

Zou Chengmin got up early and baked a stack of pancakes for them. If the three of them couldn't deliver them by motorcycle, he would have sent them to the car.

After seeing them off, Zou Chengmin felt empty. After several months of getting along, he fell in love with Li Yan.

Not to mention that she looks good, but she has a good head. From raising seedlings to planting, to pruning and shaping, she can learn it in one go, and she can draw inferences from one example. She is also very diligent, which is completely contrary to her image of being delicate and unable to endure hardship.

Alas, it will take two months to see her, and Zou Chengmin becomes unhappy.

(End of this chapter)